The China National Intellectual Property Administration (CNIPA) has initiated the public consultation on the Trademark Law (Revised Draft for Comments). For the full draft in Chinese, please visit: 国家知识产权局 通知 国家知识产权局关于《中华人民共和国商标法修订草案（征求意见稿）》公开征求意见的通知 (cnipa.gov.cn).

国家知识产权局开展《中华人民共和国商标法》修改工作，起草了《中华人民共和国商标法修订草案（征求意见稿）》，并向社会各界公开征求意见。稿件全文（中文）：国家知识产权局 通知 国家知识产权局关于《中华人民共和国商标法修订草案（征求意见稿）》公开征求意见的通知 (cnipa.gov.cn).

• 2023-02-14 | 10:00 - 11:25
• Zoom

The European Chamber IPR Working Group cordially invites you to the Working Group Meeting: IP & competition: Interpretation of the draft Provisions on Prohibition of Abuse of Intellectual Property Rights to Exclude or Restrict Competition and latest updates from China, to be held on 11th October, 14.00 – 16.00, at European Chamber Shanghai Office and online.

• 2022-10-11 - 2022-10-11 | 14:00 - 16:00
• European Chamber Shanghai Office + Zoom

ANDRITZ is an international technology group providing plants, systems, equipment, and services for various industries. The company is one of the technology and global market leaders in the hydropower business, the pulp and paper industry, the metal working and steel industries, and in solid/liquid separation in the municipal and industrial segments.

In addition to patent, trademark, copyright, software copyright, technical secret is another important type of IP for manufactures. The status of “secrecy“ (i.e. the information is not public information) is one of the elements the information owner shall prove in legal action against the infringer of technical secret. It’s important for the Europe invested companies in China to understand what technical information can be recognized as trade secret in China legal environment.

• 2022-08-17 | 10:30 - 16:00
• 13th - 16th Floor, Andritz China Headquarter building

The European Chamber is delighted to invite you to an online insights sharing session on Interpretation of the new Anti-monopoly Law, to be held on Tuesday, 12th July, 10.00 – 12.00.

• 2022-07-12 - 2022-07-12 | 10:00 - 12:00
• Zoom

Recently, Beijing Science and Technology Commission and Zhongguancun Science and Technology Park released Zhongguancun Demonstration Zone’s “1+5” financial support policy. Noting that, the European Chamber, in collaboration with the Capital Intellectual Property Services Association, is pleased to invite officials to give an in-depth policy interpterion on the section re ‘strengthening IPR protection, technological standards application’ of Zhongguancun National Independent Innovation Demonstration Zone’s Measures on Optimising the Ecological Environment Supportive Funding for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (Trial).

北京市科学技术委员会、中关村科技园区管理委员会近日发布了中关村示范区“1+5”系列资金支持政策。在此背景下，商会非常荣幸协同首都知识产权服务业协会，邀请相关负责人就《中关村国家自主创新示范区优化创新创业生态环境支持资金管理办法（试行）》关于“支持加强知识产权、技术标准创制运用”部分内容进行深入解读。

• 2022-06-29 | 10:00 - 11:00
• European Chamber Beijing Office/Zoom

At the China national level, several legislative and administrative documentations, including the Regulations on the Foreign Investment Law Implementation and the Opinions on Further Stabilizing Foreign Trade and Stabilizing Foreign Investment, stipulate that foreign investment should be encouraged and promoted; the legitimate rights and interests of foreign investment should be protected; and the threshold for foreign-invested R&D centers to enjoy preferential policies should be lowered. Overall, the foreign investment should be encouraged to invest in China to set up R&D centers.

At the Beijing municipal level, there was and absence of specified documentations addressing the establishment and development of foreign-funded R&D centers. Moreover, the boundaries for the identification of foreign-invested R&D centers were relatively blurred. Noting that, Beijing has formulated a special policy to attract foreign investment R&D centers to set up development in Beijing to serve the development of foreign investors in Beijing and promote more open, inclusive, mutually beneficial and shared international scientific and technological cooperation.

在中国国家层面，《中华人民共和国外商投资法实施条例》和《关于进一步做好稳外贸稳外资工作的意见》等文件都明确指出，鼓励和促进外商投资，保护外商投资合法权益，降低外资研发中心享受优惠政策门槛，鼓励外商来华投资设立研发中心。

在北京市层面，之前尚无针对外资研发中心设立和发展的专门文件，对于外资研发中心的认定界限也相对模糊。为此，北京市出台制订吸引外资研发中心在京设立发展专门政策，服务外商在京发展，促进更加开放包容、互惠共享的国际科技合作。

• 2022-06-24 | 14:00 - 15:30
• European Chamber Beijing Office & Zoom Online

The European Chamber is pleased to invite you to our upcoming closed-door Working Group meeting, where Ms Sophie Mueller, Head of Unit for Standardisation at DG GROW, and Ms Betty Xu, Director at SESEC, will provide an overview of the EU’s and China’s standardisation strategies. The meeting will take place on the 24th May from 15:30 to 17:00 online via Zoom.

• 2022-05-24 | 15:30 - 17:00
• Zoom

On 23rd February, the European Commission published a proposal for a Directive on Sustainable Corporate Governance. The European Chamber has invited Ms Orsolya Csorba, Counsellor for Competition, Justice and Consumer Policy at the Delegation of the European Union to China to provide a debriefing on the Commission’s proposal. Ms Csorba will provide the debriefing onsite in Beijing on Thursday, 31st March from 10:00AM to 11:00AM. Members wishing to attend online will be provided a Zoom link.

• 2022-03-31 | 10:00 - 11:00
• European Chamber Beijing offices

During the 13th Five-Year Plan period, China has issued a series of high-level designing on strengthening the protection of intellectual property rights. As a critical part of optimising the business environment and stimulating market vitality, intellectual property protection plays an important role in promoting the construction of a new development pattern.

在十三五期间，中国已出台一系列关于加强知识产权保护工作的顶层设计文件。知识产权保护作为优化营商环境、激发市场活力的重要一环，在推动构建新发展格局中具有重要作用。

• 2022-03-21 | 13:30 - 15:30
• European Chamber Beijing Office C405

Recent WTO disputes, an ongoing trade war, and significant rates of ongoing intellectual property (IP) infringement in China have amplified concerns about the strength of the country's IP regime. At the same time, across many indicators, China's IP regime is relatively supportive of European businesses. For European firms, this seeming contradiction is difficult to explain to fellow employees and top management in China -- let alone headquarters, clients, and government representatives. And yet, without a convincing explanation offered to these stakeholders, business activities in China may run sub-optimally at a time where competition is fiercer than ever. This working group meeting will seek to both explain and offer some solutions to this conundrum.

• 2021-12-07 - 2021-12-07 | 15:00 - 16:30
• Zoom